Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
by cialowicz on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:28PM
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It would be interesting to play with a left-to-right timeline for any tweet replies or conversations. It would leave the standard timeline alone, but allow users to scroll right to deep dive into specific conversations.
Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
by wavefunction on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:53PM
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How would you limit the horizontal scrolling to only one conversation?
Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
by jjrh on Friday February 09, 2018 @02:49PM
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https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2015/the-what-a...
I'm sure someone has worked on it. Might be interesting if Twitter had a opt in way to try some of their UI experiments.
Yes, I have been complaining about this sporadically for a while. I mean, I once tweeted that you have to do a headstand to read the tweets in chronological order [1], and even, the text will be upside down ... :) Some time later, I think they have made some changes to that, for certain cases at least, e.g. for a thread consisting of a tweet and replies to it. But in a sense that makes things even more confusing, because now you have to sometimes read things chronologically (a tweet and its replies), and sometimes in reverse (the rest)!
Jokes apart, there are multiple issues with the UI.
[1] Yes, I know there may be a technical reason for the problem, but has anyone at Twitter tried working on a solution?.